University Diaries » “[W]e don’t believe universities are decisive in activating and actualising the enormous potential of our people for the progress of our country. We think of higher education almost as the charity that the government grudgingly extends to citizens.”

Good opinion piece about how information-mongering and welfare statism generate mediocrity in India’s universities.

[W]e need to exorcise ourselves of our subliminal fear that the spread of liberal education — especially the liberating and egalitarian ideals embedded in it — could nudge the country into unrest.

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